First Day in Trinidad!

 Hi I'm Dilly from Wales and I'm the first volunteer to blog. :)
Today was our first full day in Trinidad, which began the same way as it ended...very humid!  We started off our day with a beautiful breakfast prepared by our local cooking staff in the guest-house.  Then traveled down to Matura beach for beach orientation.  It looks just like the postcards, thanks to the community which do their annual rubbish picking in order to make the turtles more comfortable whilst nesting.

Here's a picture of an infertile Leatherback turtle egg, which we found on Matura beach.  I think that the turtle lays her infertile eggs last, on top of her fertile eggs, so that if predators happen to find the nest, they'll go for the top ones, which are infertile, therefore protecting the hatchlings.

We then took a detour to a local river where we went for a refreshing swim to cool off from the blistering heat.

Dennis the principle researcher and Ronald  the secretary of the Nature Seekers then gave us a talk on the expectations of our next couple of weeks and some facts on Leatherback sea turtles. I learned that for every 1000 turtles, only one makes it to adulthood!  We also learned about the Nature Seekers organisation who have been partnering with Earthwatch since 2003!  Please like their link on Facebook since they do such important work to preserve 25% of nesting sea turtles in the world! http://www.facebook.com/NatureSeekers  Keep reading our blogs for the next couple weeks, to follow what we're doing!
Dilly :)